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Cole 🚲

@mapboy.bsky.social

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GIS & Urban Planning Graduate (Fanshawe) - I want to help build cities for people - AI/LLM hater - 学习中文 - 3968km on the Hamilton Bike Share 🚲 Former Hamiltonian 🌇 Current Edmontonian 🏙️

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 4d

Downtown Edmonton is dead, wow, I can only wonder why 🤔 "But a bike lane would take away a traffic lane" shut your goddamn mouth. #yeg

One of the entrances to The Edmonton City Centre with a massive road cutting through it.

Another massive road cutting through the heart of downtown Edmonton

An ludicrous road right beside an active stadium with high pedestrian traffic during events.

Another massive road right beside a university no less.

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 1d

I could see it. It ultimately only equaled the equivalent of 500k cars pollution for all inhalers so an easy solution is to just take that many cars off the road. Problem solved.

Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 1d

"In the grand scheme of things, Feldman noted, inhalers are a relatively small cause of climate change compared to the bigger culprits like traffic, agriculture, and power generation."

Way to bury this right at the very end. Blaming asthma sufferers (my wife included) for climate change is a joke.

Unofficial CTV News Mirror @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 1d

Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 2d

Good to know, I'm not used to having a 311 app as Hamilton didn't have one. Will definitely take some getting used too.

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The Kavernacle @thekavernacle.bsky.social · 2d

Should have just given it to Trump if we are going to give it to the CIA anyway lol

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 2d

New city, same old bike lane blockers 😡 #yeg #bikesky

A UPS truck just blatantly parked in the 102 Ave bike lane in downtown Edmonton.

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 3d

This is such a disgusting article to even write. Maclean's should have some decency and not be shilling for this horseshit. And way to bury the lead about the author at the very bottom: "Brett Belchetz is the CEO and co-founder of Maple, one of Canada’s leading virtual health-care platforms." 🤮

Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 3d

In the next few years, there will be millions more people needing complex health care—and not enough young Canadians to provide it. AI can help fill the gaps. https://macleans.ca/society/health/ai-could-save-canadas-health-care-system/

AI Could Save Canada’s Health-Care System - Macleans.ca

Canada is running out of doctors. Artificial intelligence can help.

macleans.ca

Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 3d

One thing I strangely like about at-grade LRT is the visceral satisfaction of watching drivers have to wait for it to pass by 😛 #yeg

Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 3d

Maps and YouTube aren’t “monopoly product[s],” Schmidtlein reportedly told the court.

Ok buddy 🫠 You must be huffing the good shit to have the balls to say this about the biggest mapping and video sharing platforms which you own both of.

Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 4d

If Danielle Smith is praising you you've really done goofed. #cdnpoli #alberta #yeg #yyc

ctvnewsedmonton.bsky.social @ctvnewsedmonton.bsky.social · 4d

Alberta’s Smith says Prime Minister Carney speaking Trump’s ‘love language’

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is lauding Prime Minister Carney’s ability to speak the “love language” of U.S. President Donald Trump.

bit.ly

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 4d

Carney has caved on grotesque military spending for NATO, the DST, the draconian border measures he wants, the waste of money fentanyl czar, etc. etc. He's a neolib clown at this point.

Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 4d

Get out of here with this nonsense. Carney is a fool being played like a fiddle by a fascist dipshit.

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 4d

We saw that on one of our first days and it was crazytown. I just can't help but laugh seeing people complain about congestion here having lived the shitshow of Ontario traffic all my life. I'm going to be such a menace to drivers here 😂

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 4d

Suspect Guilty GIF

Alt: Suspect Guilty GIF

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 4d

Downtown Edmonton is dead, wow, I can only wonder why 🤔 "But a bike lane would take away a traffic lane" shut your goddamn mouth. #yeg

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 5d

Some of my critiques of Edmonton: 3/4 of drivers should have their license instantly revoked for being psychos, curb cuts are horrendous, flashing pedestrian lights mean nothing to drivers here, pedestrian beg buttons with no rhyme or reason to placement and lots of roads with too many lanes. #yeg

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 6d

lmfao, have fun with your slop piggy.

Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 6d

Wow, so original. You're literal scum bud.

Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 6d

Fuck off asshole.

Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 6d

Have fun being anti-art and anti-human, enjoy your slop little piggy 🐷

Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 6d

Don't even try and make that equivalence. You've got knock off Simpsons AI slop as your image. You're a complete and utter hypocrite using this garbage tech. Hope it's worth it as you watch the world get torched for this. You're not morally superior for only using the image theft generator only.

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 6d

Buddy, look in the mirror, you're the problem here too. You're not better than this slop machine when you're using the image slop machine. Hypocrite.

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you kindly! We love how close it is to everything and the LRT in particular 🤠

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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 7d

Fuck off bud

Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 7d

Even the LRT trains have art in some of them!

Pretty garden vine art in the LRT train car.

Pretty bird flying above on the LRT train car roof.

Nice blue sky and plants growing on the art inside one of the LRT train cars.

Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 7d

@cameronkroetsch.bsky.social You should get Hamilton to put more public art up ASAP. Edmonton has a stupid abundance of beautiful pieces that Hamilton is sorely lacking. Art is everywhere here. Can get art students to do it even, then they learn and beautify the city simultaneously! #hamont #yeg

Gorgeous street art in downtown Edmonton

Beautiful Indigenous art in the City Centre in downtown Edmonton

A fun physical art piece where if you line it up it makes a cute picture. By Rogers Place in downtown Edmonton

There's even random art of yarn and wool at Kingsway LRT Station in Edmonton

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